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Easy A (USA, 2010)

Predictions: No predictions. We had both already seen this film. :)

Plot: Emma Stone is your average Natasha Bedingfield fan, a normal high-schooler in 2010. Until, one day, she lies to her overbearing best friend in the girls' restroom, pretending that she had sex with a college guy. Amanda Bynes, the local Christian busybody, overhears this and tells everyone. One thing leads to another, and, before you know it, Emma Stone is pretending to have sex for gift cards just, you know, left and right. It starts with her trying to help out one gay guy (Dan Byrd), but soon enough her life is just an endless stream of corsets, (fake!)chlamydia, and continuous vlog narration of a slightly heavy-handed Scarlet Letter analogy.

While Emma Stone's amazing and hilarious parents know that she is not really sleeping her way across campus, nonetheless she eventually becomes bothered by, you know, the chlamydia rumors and being legit propositioned by a creep in a parking lot. She decides to come clean, with the help of Penn Badgley, her crush/the boy she pretended to kiss in 8th grade (apparently fake hookups are a theme in Emma Stone's young life). She does a song and dance in front of the whole school, makes them watch the movie we have been watching, and rides off into the sunset with Penn Badgley on his neighbor's lawn mower. Everyone lives happily ever after, except the people who lied about having chlamydia.

Best Scene: Every scene with Emma Stone's parents, Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson. They are fantastic. So funny. So supportive. Can we have your parents, Emma Stone?

Worst Scene: Obviously the scene where her creep classmate tries to actually have sex with her for a $200 Home Depot gift card. Really? Home Depot? Target, at least. Come on, man. Also, it's frightening and horrible. DON'T HAVE SEX FOR MONEY, KIDS. Or pretend to. :|

Best Line: "Yes. Yes, I believe so, if I was a Gossip Girl in a Sweet Valley with Traveling Pants." -- Emma Stone, dryly, when her shitty friend asks her about being in love with her fake one-night stand. What an amazing YA-romance-reference-smush.

Worst Line: Um, obviously something that creep says about how he paid Emma Stone (a gift card to Home Depot, mind you) and is now entitled to her body. Grrrr.

Highlights of the Watching Experience: Why didn't Emma Stone just download "Pocketful of Sunshine," instead of incessantly playing it off that greeting card? This was 2010. She was perfectly capable of buying the song on iTunes. Support artists, Emma Stone. Also, "webcast," eh?? Is that what we called livestreaming or periscoping or vlogging or whatever, back in the day? The evolution of words in our modern time, guys. And finally, what's with this A that fills up with scarlet crayon blood at the beginning of this Blu-Ray? A touch unsettling.

How Many POC in the Film: Well, her little brother is black. She also pretends to hook up with some Asian nerds, among other nerds. Maybe some other classmates? In conclusion, mostly white people were in this film.

Alternate Scenes: Well, that whole "Lisa Kudrow, married guidance counselor, sleeps with a student and gives him chlamydia" story really bums us out. Perhaps we could have done without that. Alternately, perhaps we would have liked to add a scene, clarifying where Lisa Kudrow got the chlamydia that she subsequently gave to this student. I mean, how many people is this lady sleeping with?? Where is she finding the time????

Was the Poster Better or Worse than the Film: Worse. This detention-mugshot poster is fine, albeit weird, but the movie is delightful. REALLY HOLDS UP, YOU GUYS. Would recommend.

Score: 8 out of 10 Nathaniel Hawthorne smooches. Fake adultery ftw! Except for Lisa Kudrow, who is engaging in actual adultery, which is not cool. Not cool, Lisa Kudrow.

Ranking: 17, out of the 99 movies we’ve seen so far. Technically probably not a romcom, but it has both rom- and -com in our hearts.

#easy a #emma stone #penn badgley #2010

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